Permanent Trustee Co Ltd v The Northcott Society & Ors [1999] NSWSC 742

New South Wales Supreme Court CITATION : Permanent Trustee Co Ltd v The Northcott Society & Ors [1999] NSWSC 742 CURRENT JURISDICTION : Equity Division FILE NUMBER(S) : 2738/98 HEARING DATE(S) : 14/07/99 JUDGMENT DATE : 14 July 1999

Permanent Trustee Co Limited (P) The Northcott Society (D1) PARTIES : Pamela Eloise Irvine (D2) Julia Phyllis Lester (D3) Anna Nash Lester (D4) JUDGMENT OF : Young J

M S Willmott (P) COUNSEL : S Winters (D2) R Page (D3 & 4) Windeyer Dibbs (P) SOLICITORS : Andrea Wilson & Associates (D2) Greaves Wannan & Williams (D3 & 4) CATCHWORDS : Succession [202]- Wills- Construction- Gift over if trust fails- Whether a residuary gift Berry v Geen [1938] AC 575 CBS Productions Pty Ltd v O'Neill (1985) 1 NSWLR 601 Cowan v Larkman (1888) 60 LT 1 Re Doland's Will Trusts [1970] Ch 267 Re Edwards [1906] 1 Ch 570 CASES CITED : Re Harrison (1885) 30 Ch D 390 Hatton v May (1876) 3 Ch D 148 Ingram v Ingram (1938) 38 SR (NSW) 407 Re Mabbett [1891] 1 Ch 707 Re Pennington [1972] VR 869 Thomson's Trustees v Thomson [1946] SLT 339 DECISION : See paras 39 and 40

THE SUPREME COURT OF NEW SOUTH WALES EQUITY DIVISION

YOUNG, J

WEDNESDAY 14 JULY 1999

2738/98 - PERMANENT TRUSTEE CO LTD V THE NORTHCOTT SOCIETY & ORS

JUDGMENT 1 HIS HONOUR : Stanley Clyde Pelzer died on 1 July 1978, having first made and published his last will and testament on 1 December 1971, probate whereof was granted to the plaintiff on 29 November 1978. 2 The will is a strange one in many ways and there is really no alternative but to set out cll 4 to 7 in full: " 4. I GIVE DEVISE AND BEQUEATH the dwelling house in which I am residing at the time of my death (hereinafter called "my said home") unto my Trustee UPON TRUST